Loving my Oldies

11 years 11 glorious years. I am sure so many DOLers have loved all your stories as much as I have. Deepest condolences. You all shared so much love, Bubby will be sorely missed.

It is a bit of a long shot, SoG, but Brightside Farm Sanctuary in Tasmania always has about a dozen greyhounds for adoption. https://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=brightside+farm+sanctuary&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&gfe_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=ltbWWbnTDJHp8wffxYP4Dg

No!!! HE did not pee on you. You must be thinking of another dog. LOL. I keep all my photos, but the reason I took that was it was very unusual for Tirra to go to other people. You have the knack, obviously, and should use that as a testimonial for getting a dog.

That is both very sad and totally unacceptable, SofG. When you consider there are so many dogs languishing in kennels (that are called rescue - a complete disgrace ) and probably any number of them would have been 100% suitable for the situation you described. I find it hard to understand why people do it. Do you remember this evening? Such a long time ago. My darling Tirra has been gone for 9 years 2008 Tirra and SoG by Cynthia Waters, on Flickr

Yep, can grab you at any time even years later.

Wow! A photograph is enough. That is scary. Good girls

Welcome home. Oh my, that squishy squishy nose

Oh my, teeny tiny lumps of love.

Bad mum

Well, I was hoping for sympathy and advice, but all I get are emoticons No one seems to care for Sharpie’s dilemma But i’m doing my best to steer Stella towards her little scrap of material and stuffed lion. Luckily my dogs don’t act as a pack and join in the persecution of Sharpie. We’ll battle on here and try to keep them all safe.

Sharpie the Shar Pei came with Stella. Stella can be very rough with her, growling, throwing her around and then just ignoring her for a couple of days and then the rough stuff starts again. Here is poor little girl trying to escape into her crate: IMG_0532 by Cynthia Waters, on Flickr

Oh my goodness. That was absolutely brilliant. Your little cream dog is so agile . To my shame, I would be a total wreck LOL.

I had read that but your pix really demonstrate it. And, yes to smiles and senses of humour

WOW!! So beautiful, Yonjuro. The difference in their sizes is really marked, isn’t it. Ronin looks his usual exuberant self, with Willow a little bit more laid back.

LOL. Only Sydney, not Scotland.

I know. Up and down, turn around, lie down, twist to get better access, etc.

Blimey - you have dinosaurs where you live ??

If she is skin and bone, try making bone broth (google easy recipe) and mix with nutrigel. My SWF (Tamar nearly 14) is very skinny as well, but not as bad as your little girl sounds. She isn’t very interested in food - just seems to be something necessary to take from time to time. However, she seems to really like the mixture and nutrigel is calorie loaded. The difficulty when older and health compromised dogs need dental care is weighing up the risks and benefits. Dogs can get a second lease on life from having rotting damaged teeth removed. So much nastiness is going into their bodies from bad teeth and/or infected gums. How confident are you with your vet? Do you know him/her well? Maybe get a second opinion? Two of my elderlies (around 16 both of them) needed dentals not so long ago and I was very very nervous as one of them has a heart murmur and is on daily meds. However, they sailed through. I’d be inclined to put some weight on your girl and then consider it again. Good luck.

LOL. Too big for you, Jonah.

Yes! Bones ARE great. Gorgeous boy. The thing is with a program like Flickr (and previously Photobucket) is that the photographs remain as sharp as the originals. I used to resize and so some of my photographs are of very poor quality

Those colours !!!! Just terrific photos, Canis.

Another photo of Jeune. Such a beautiful little girl IMG_0312 by Cynthia Waters, on Flickr

LOL. She used to climb under the bedclothes when I got up, but now she tends to want to climb under in the wee small hours. We have a lovely little cuddle and then back to sleep. When that photograph was taken, she was still under the bedcothes and I pulled them up to start making the bed just to see how long she would stay there. She won . As for being lumpy, when I go into the bedroom and she is still buried, I call out, “Where’s lumpy pumpy?” She wriggles around and slowly emerges with tail wagging.

This is Jeune: Jeune

LOL of course I knew you were joking. Dizzy doesn’t care what he is called so long as he is with you. Tamar and Jeune are foster failures from 2004 and 2003 respectively. It will soon be 14 years since Jeune FFd and the pound had her down as three. So she is coming up to 17 if they were right. I always have plenty of newspapers as we get a local weekly paper and as I walk around the neighbourhood with the dogs, I collect those that I know will just rot in the street